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Obama Scrounges for Votes from Morning to Midnight

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Barack Obama ended his day late last night at an Indiana auto parts factory, where he greeted voters leaving a shift at midnight. “I need everybody to vote tomorrow, take your friends, take your family; go out there and vote. This is going to be a close race - every single vote is really going to count,” Obama said to a gaggle of UAW members.

After 19 hours, a couple of states, and multiple events, Barack Obama’s press corps was tired - but not the candidate himself, who leisurely greeted workers for more than 40 minutes.

Watch his interaction with haggard reporters a little after midnight.

Pushing through today’s primaries, Barack Obama left his hotel bright and early again this morning, heading to a restaurant to greet the breakfast crowd before dropping by an Indianapolis polling precinct. He even managed to squeeze two games of basketball in with friends and staffers in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, one photographer calculated that some of Obama’s reporters have gotten six hours of sleep over the last three days. Seven hours if you count a nap on the plane.

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